for Jen
~~~~~~~~~~

My Sister The Poet

Joined for life
by two wombs
in common
the one
that brought us
into this world
and the one
that caught us
when we left the first
nurtured
the unseen
then gave us
naked and screaming
to the world
that demanded
we tell ourselves
joined not only
by the blood
but by the ink
in our veins

~HC